Sentences with phrase «about climate change science in»

I have recently been shocked at the depth of the ignorance about climate change science in the parliamentary Liberal Party of Australia; it is an indictment on Australia and the Australian voters (who voted these ignoramuses into Parliament).

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In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourceIn his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resourcein the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

A new government report on the science of climate change has made it past the Trump White House unscathed with forceful statements about humanity's role in rising temperatures and their severe threat to the United States.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

Mike Hulme is the author of the excellent Why We Disagree About Climate Change, which was one of The Economist «s four science and technology books of the year in 2009.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

The format of the initiatives meant that they not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended — including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, and attitudes about climate change — at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Several speakers expressed concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's denial of climate change, Vice President Mike Pence's creationist beliefs, and Trump's willingness to work with prominent antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. «In the face of fanaticism and fear, science is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexicscience is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of MexicScience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here.

The intergovernmental science panel faces questions about its future role in addressing climate change

What a group of physicists think about climate change matters greatly because climate science is, after all, a branch of physics, and most atmospheric scientists are based in physics departments.

His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped write a four - page brief about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

She became almost evangelical about climate change — something she had previously described as «not an exact science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.

During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication, public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.

In 2009 he said, when talking about climate change, that the «science is highly contentious, to say the least» and «the climate change argument is absolute crap», but did accept that precautionary action against it was a good idea.

Charles Godfray, a professor at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University who recently co-authored a paper in the journal Science about the challenges of feeding 9 billion people, said that the impact of climate change on agriculture will be negative.

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a science historian specialising in weather and climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if not impossible, to draw conclusions about the correlation to longer - term climate change.

The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007, after the Japan report about the impacts and one in September in Sweden about climate science.

In his 2013 State of the Union address, Pres. Obama talked about climate change, energy and manufacturing technology innovation, and STEM education — that is, science, technology, engineering and math

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

Repairing the climate could be that simple, or at least that is what climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,climate could be that simple, or at least that is what climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang, $ 25).

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

«This study adds to a growing body of knowledge about the increases in wildfire risk and climate change,» said Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

The Review is a super refined weekly web publication curated by subject matter experts from Yale who summarize important research articles from leading natural and social science journals with the hope that people can make more informed decisions using latest research results.The Review launched this week and covers a wide range of topics, like this brief about climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitclimate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitychange and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitClimate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversityChange Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitclimate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitychange simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity loss.

They say that these debates about climate change and teaching evolution in schools, you know, really comes down, it really blurs the lines; it confuses the public about the kind of the boundaries between science and ideology.

The research in Science and Nature Climate Change, although on two different topics, fits into a growing body of knowledge about the side effects of ice loss.

Nisbet's prior research examining public opinion about climate change and energy insecurity also revealed for science communicators that understanding the public in more precise ways than partisanship or ideology allowed for improved outreach.

«If you haven't had proximity to these glaciers, if you haven't thought about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a state that has predominantly a semi-desert climate and certainly by contemporary climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by climate change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental science at Central Wyoming College.

The consensus on human - caused climate change is among the strongest observed in the sciences — about as strong as the consensus surrounding the link between smoking and lung cancer.

We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate - change field — namely, climate sensitivity — operates as an «anchoring device» in «science for policy».

In Catholic schools, we teach children about the peer - reviewed scientific consensus on climate change in science classeIn Catholic schools, we teach children about the peer - reviewed scientific consensus on climate change in science classein science classes.

The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one - quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago, evolving that way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed from, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

Paul Beckwith, PhD candidate in Climate Science at University of Ottawa, talked about the wide range impact of climate change, December 2012.Climate Science at University of Ottawa, talked about the wide range impact of climate change, December 2012.climate change, December 2012.»

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate change.

In November 2014, Science Director Richard Somerville spoke at a TEDx event at the University of California, San Diego, on «What Should We Do About Climate Change?»

In an op - ed for Fox News, Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House science committee, made a host of false and misleading claims about climate change and related issues.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change educatioIn the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change educatioin schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

A documentary about the popular science advocate and his campaign to defend evolution and climate change and evidence - based thinking in general.

Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smoking.

«Coming from complexity science, the term emergence describes the dynamic and unpredictable ways through which change unfolds in organizations,» writes Shane Safir in this article about how teacher leaders can transform a school's climate and culture.

But, it said, about three in 10 middle and high school science teachers «reported telling their students, wrongly, that the causes of recent climate change are the matter of scientific debate.»

The organization representing more than 600 public school boards across the state says how science is taught in the classroom will influence how a generation of students think about climate change.

Talk to us about artificial intelligence, Big Science, climate change, gender and racial inequalities in science cScience, climate change, gender and racial inequalities in science cscience careers.

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.

It's probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their «logic» so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (science PhDs) who can not be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces.